I've been at this game long enough now to recognize that it's more valuable to think of being at a "layer" of the tech stack. In your case with PHP I'm guessing you're part of the web stack. There are plenty of languages for which you'd have plenty of pre-existing web experience that would make it easy to develop in. I'm mostly in the web stack as well and I've used several different languages at different companies and really never cared.
PHP is the one language where everyone feels comfortable suggesting changing to some other language. I should have followed HN's advice and become a novice Ruby on Rails developer 10 years ago, and then a novice Golang developer, and now I could be a novice NodeJS developer! If only...
There's nothing wrong with asking around to see if anybody's looking for a strong [language] dev. I just wish it were possible to see the word "php" in an HN thread without it being followed by some subset of the same tedious replies.
I wish that culture would just die already and we could have more honest discussions about actual use-cases where one particular language might be a better choice.
Because he likes PHP :)